Greater galingale (lengkuas)

Greater galingale (UK), lengkuas (Indonesia); Laos (Java), Laja (Sunda).
Greater galingale (Lenguas galanga or Alpinia galanga) is often used by women known as the flavoring dishes. Galangal herb plants including tall vertical stalks reach 2 to 2.5 meters. Galangal can live in the lowlands to highlands, approximately 1,200 meters above sea level. There are 2 kinds of plants known as galangal rhizome of varieties with tubers (roots), white and red varieties of tuber rhizomes. Galangal rhizomes white bulb is used flavoring dishes, is galangal rhizomes red bulbs are used as medicine.

Chemical compounds contained in Lenguas galanga, among others contain essential oils, oil fly, eugenol, sesquiterpenes, pinen, methyl cinnamate, kaemferida, shipyard, galangol and yellow crystals.
Curable Disease:
Rheumatism, spleen pain, sexual passion, appetite, bronchitis; morbili, Panu.